Rethinking Locality in Japan

ISBN-13: 9780367900823 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 288 str.

Sonja Ganseforth; Hanno Jentzsch

Opis

This book inquires what is meant when we say ‘local’ and what ‘local’ means in the Japanese context. Through the window of locality, it enhances an understanding of broader political and socio-economic shifts in Japan.

Spis treści

Part 1: (Re)lating Localities as Lived Spaces in Japan  1. Locality in Shōnai: Scale, Containers, Fields, and Horizons  2. Localized yet Deterritorialized Lives in Rural Japan: Fragmented Localities, Mobility, and Neoliberalism  3. Rur-bane Relations: Assemblage and Cosmopolitics in Central Hokkaido  4. The Meaning of Place for Selfhood and Well-being in Rural Japan  Part 2: Local Social Worlds at Risk  5. Localizing the Nuclear: Risk Normalization and Sense of Place after Fukushima  6. Mapping the Local Economy of Care: Social Welfare and Volunteerism in Local Communities  7. San’ya – The Making and Unmaking of a Welfare Quarter  Part 3: Localities under Contestation  8. Defending the Local: Resident Activism against Municipal Mergers in Postwar Rural Japan  9. Local Governance of Public Transport Services: Maintaining Identity and Independence after the Heisei Mergers  10. Territorialized yet Fluid Locality: Reform, Consolidation, and the More-than-Human in Japanese Fishery Cooperatives  11. The Reinterpretation of Locality and Place in the Wine Industry of Yamanashi Prefecture  Part 4: Local–National Dynamics  12. Furusato Nōzei Tax: Local Place in National Tax Policy and the Dynamics of Locality  13. Uprooting the Political Landscape: How Municipal Mergers Untethered the Local from National Politics  14. Competing Conceptions of Local Democracy in Japan  Part 5: Coda  15. Earth is our Locale: Decentering and Decelerating the Human in the Anthropocene